D. T. Max Quotes

What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Meet your fears with faith.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Worry divides the mind.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.